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William Clark Gable was born on February 1, 1901 in Cadiz, Ohio. Later that year his mother died, and his father sent him to live with his maternal aunt and uncle in Pennsylvania, where he stayed until he was two. His father then returned to take him back to Cadiz. When Clark was 16 he dropped out of school and worked at many odd jobs before joining a traveling theater company. On December 13, 1924 he married Josephine Dillon, his acting coach and 15 years his senior. Around that time, they moved to Hollywood so that Clark could concentrate on his acting career. In April 1930, they divorced and a year later he married Maria Langham (a.k.a. Maria Franklin Gable), also about 17 years older than him. After working as an extra in various movies, he was offered a small part in the The Painted Desert(1931) in 1931. From this point, his acting career flourished, and in 1934 he won an Academy Award for his performance in Frank Capra's classic It Happened One Night (1934). The next year saw a starring role in The Call of the Wild (1935) with Loretta Young. Divorced in 1939, he later that same year starred in Gone with the Wind (1939). In March 1939 Clark married Carole Lombard, but tragedy struck in January 1942 when the plane in which Carole and her mother were flying crashed into Table Rock Mountain, Nevada, killing them both. Clark then volunteered to be drafted and served in Europe for several years. After the war he continued with his film career and married Silvia Ashley, the widow of Douglas Fairbanks, in 1949. Unfortunately this marriage was short-lived and they divorced in 1952. In July 1955 he married a former sweetheart, Kathleen Williams Spreckles (a.k.a. Kay Williams) and became stepfather to her two children, Joan and Adolph ("Bunker") Spreckels III. On November 16, 1959, Gable became a grandfather when Judy Lewis, his daughter with Loretta Young, gave birth to a daughter, Maria. In 1960, Gable's wife Kay discovered that she was expecting their first child. In early November 1960, he had just completed filming The Misfits (1961), when he suffered a heart attack, and died later that month. Gable was buried shortly afterwards in the shrine that he had built for Carole Lombard and her mother when they died. In March 1961, Kay Gable gave birth to a boy whom she named John Clark Gable after his father.

Rhett Butler

Rhett K. Butler is many things. He is a renegade, an outcast, a mystery. He was born in 1828. His father threw him out because Rhett was too much like his grandfather. As he grew older, his father's disapproval of him grew. Finally, he "threw him out into the world with no training whatsoever to be anything but a Charleston gentleman, a good pistol shot and an excellent poker player." Rhett excelled at all of those things, except becoming a gentleman. His father obviously did not approve. He was so shocked at a Butler becoming a gambler, that when Rhett went home for the first time, he was not allowed to see his mother. Afterwards, Rhett became a professional gambler and he was not received by anyone in Charleston, for he was expelled from West Point. This happened because one day Rhett took a girl out buggy riding in the late afternoon, and they stayed out nearly all night and walked home, because the horse had run away and smashed the buggy and they got lost in the woods. Of course, the girl was compromised so a gentleman would marry her. But Rhett said that he didn't do anything to her and didn't see why he should marry her. So, the girl's brother called Rhett out for a duel and he shot the girl's brother, and he died. During the war, Rhett was only a soldier for a short time, and he didn't want many people to know about it. He was mostly a blockade runner. He made $500,000 during the war, which is worth much more today. But after most of his trips, he came all the way back to Atlanta to see none other than the widowed Scarlett O'Hara Hamilton. Rhett was madly in love with her, even though he did not show it. Rhett even bid 150 dollars in gold to dance with her at a ball. He courted her, and brought her presents from Europe. It was he who got her out of her "fake mourning." He started to ruin her reputation as well, for he already had a bad enough one. When the blockades got too tight, Rhett sold his ships and stayed in Atlanta. Rhett continued to court Scarlett. He even rescued her from burning Atlanta, but he did not complete the journey with her, for in the middle of their journey, he went to join the Confederate army. But his love took over before that, and he told her that he loved her and kissed Scarlett until she pushed him away and slapped him. He spent the last 8 months of the war fighting, but did not get wounded. After the war, he got arrested for killing a negro who insulted a white woman. While in jail, Scarlett came to him, saying that she was terrified, for she didn't want the yankees to hang him. Rhett thought she cared for him until he saw her hands, which were worn-out. He realized that everything wasn't okay with her, that she was working like a field hand, and that Scarlett needed something from him desperately. She wanted 300 dollars, but Rhett couldn't give her any money, for his funds were in Liverpool, not Atlanta. He got out of jail by blackmailing one of his Yankee friends. About a year later, Rhett's father died. But Rhett was not sad at all. A while later, Scarlett was attacked in Shantytown and in the night, all the neighborhood men went out on a raid to "clean up" that section of town. Rhett found out that the Yankees knew, and tried to save them. Heroically, Rhett rescued all the men, but he was too late to save Frank Kennedy (Scarlett's husband) and Tommy Welburn. The day of Frank's funeral, Rhett proposed to Scarlett, and she said yes, and they got married a year later. Rhett took Scarlett to New Orleans for the most expensive honeymoon money could buy. But he made it clear to Scarlett that none of his money would go towards Ashley Wilkes. Their wedding was going well, about up until the time that their child, Eugenie Victoria "Bonnie Blue" Butler was born. Rhett spoiled Bonnie and gave her all the affection that was meant for Scarlett. He even fixed his reputation so that Bonnie would be received in the homes of decent people. But everything wasn't going okay for Rhett. Him and Scarlett's bickerings started to grow into fights. One night, after Ashley's birthday party, Rhett got extremely drunk and showed it, when he was talking to Scarlett. He even confessed his love for her, he said "for I loved you and I know you." All his true affections came out that night. The next morning, Rhett did not want to face Scarlett, so he refuged at Belle's for 3 days. When he came back, he was still scared of what Scarlett would say. So, he told her that he was going to London and taking Bonnie with him. He was gone for three months, and only came back because Bonnie missed her mother. Rhett came back to find out that Scarlett was pregnant, but she did not want his child. Rhett laughed and said "Cheer up. Maybe you'll have a miscarriage." Scarlett then lunged at Rhett but missed, and toppled down the stairs. She DID have a miscarriage, and Rhett was extremely worried. He felt as if he killed Scarlett, and he was hoping that she would call for him. Rhett drank a lot, and eventually broke down to Melanie, and told her everything. Melly said that Scarlett loved him, but Rhett didn't believe it. A little while after, Bonnie was attempting to jump a bar with her pony, but she fell off, broke her neck, and died. Rhett then lost his mind, like Gerald did when Ellen died. He even shot the pony, and refused to let the funeral occur until Melanie talked him into it, and she got him to come back to his senses. Shortly after, Melanie died, and Scarlett realized that she loved Rhett, and she told him that. But Rhett said he didn't love her anymore. He was too old to go through that anymore. "I still laugh--but I've reached the end of roaming, Scarlett. I'm forty-five--the age when a man begins to value some of the things he's thrown away so lightly in youth, the clannishness of families, honor and security, roots that go deep-- Oh, no! I'm not recanting, I'm not regretting anything I've ever done. I've had a hell of a good time--such a hell of a good time that it's begun to pall and now I want something different. No, I never intend to change more than my spots. But I want the outer semblance of the things I used to know, the utter boredom of respectability--other people's respectability, my pet, not my own--the calm dignity life can have when it's lived by gentle folks, the genial grace of days that are gone. When I lived those days I didn't realize the slow charm of them--" When Scarlett asked him what she would do without him, he simply sighed and said, "Scarlett, I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken--and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived. Perhaps, if I were younger-- But I'm too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over. I'm too old to shoulder the burden of constant lies that go with living in polite disillusionment. I couldn't live with you and lie to you and I certainly couldn't lie to myself. I can't even lie to you now. I wish I could care what you do or where you go, but I can't. My dear, I don't give a damn." Rhett then left Scarlett to go to Charleston, where he wanted to find some links with the "old days."

Source: Umm.... 'Gone With The Wind' by Margaret Mitchell? Haha. But I wrote this character bio myself.